The Historical and Contemporary Shadow of our Collective Grief: Witnessing, Listening and Soul
A two (2) event series with Dr. Fanny Brewster and Joanna Walling, sponsored by PGIAA
Event Dates: August 2, 2020 & September 17, 2020
Event Time(s): 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Pacifica Daylight Time)
Host: Dr. Fanny Brewster
We welcome you to join in a grief support group to bear witness to our collective grief during this time of great change for our country. The United States has a long history of individual and systemic racial and cultural oppression and brutality against “other” non-dominant cultures. The scarring of this collective past leaves each of us with wounds of varying size, color, shape, and depth, wounds that need not be felt and carried alone.
Our goal for this grief support group is to create a ritual safe space to acknowledge these wounds and grieve for what resides in our collective cultural shadow. Together, we welcome the sharing and witnessing of personal or collective stories of oppression. By acknowledging the pain of the past and present we can begin to bring aspects of our cultural shadow into consciousness. We believe this cultural shadow must be tended to through communal relationships, as the illness of our collective shadow resides within us all. This group is open to all people, whether or not you have experienced oppression directly. The cultural shadow resides within us all, and therefore the witnessing of the resulting grief seeks communal containment by all.
For additional information, contact: Dianne Travis-Teague at dTravis-Teague@pacifica.edu or (805) 570-3883.
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